As Long As the Candle Burns!| TORAH FOR KIDS AI

Honoring Kadosh Baruch Hu doesn't just mean or pray all day, put feeling on and you're a tzaddik. It means apply the Torah to every single corner of your life. Know when to apply this way, know when to apply it that way, know when to do this, know when you're not allowed to do this. There are certain people you're not allowed under any condition to befriend them, to talk to them, to even sit next to them. A person that's a Christian missionary, Alachas says you're not allowed to be even four amot next to him, six feet. Not to stand next to him. If he writes a Sefer Torah, the Rambam writes it's a mitzvah to burn it. Mitzvah, even though it has Hashem's name on it. Why? He's dangerous to society. If you see your brother, your sister, they're ignorant of Hashem, they don't know about Shabbat, they don't know about tefillin, they don't know about Alacha, they don't know anything. Mitzvah for you to save them. Don't say, "Oh, no, he's a tinok shenishba, he doesn't know." Okay, he doesn't know, why are you going to leave him that way? We learn Torah like Chamin learn Torah. We see what it says, we say what it says. Whether you do it or not, that's your business. But remember, b'ficha u'vilvavcha la'asoto. It's in your mouth, it's in your heart to fulfill it. You were created to fulfill it, even though it's hard. A tzaddik is not someone that has an easy life. A tzaddik is someone that overcomes difficulty. A tzaddika is someone that overcomes difficulty. She decides to be modest, even though everybody else is half naked, that's a tzaddika. A person that sees that he has an opportunity to steal money. He has $7 million on the table illegally, and he could take it, no one's ever going to know except Hashem, but he decides to say no. He sees all of his friends are cheating and lying and have unethical businesses. All of his friends have different ways to manipulate the government, cheat the government, cheat people, cheat this, and he has an opportunity to make money, but he says no. That's a tzaddik. It's hard to say no, but that's what makes you a tzaddik. Only person that could overcome these things are people that overcome the easy test, too. And don't ever say that this is too hard and this is not hard. Everything is the same. Hakadosh Baruch Hu said to do it, you do it. It's hard, you failed, do it again. Hard, you failed, try again. Try again, try again until you succeed. Try again and again and again until you succeed. That's the point of life. Again and again until you succeed. That's the Torah. But if you just raise your hands and say, "You know what? Uh So what? You made a sin. So you have other mitzvot to do." As if you're giving up on this one. Hakadosh Baruch Hu never give up on you. mitzvah. He didn't say, "Okay, since you can't do it, okay, don't do it. Just pick something else to do." In essence, what what are you saying when you give up on a mitzvah is you're saying that Hashem is a rasha, has v'shalom. You're saying that Hashem pretty much gave you a test that you can't overcome. It's like your father gave you a truck to lift on top of your head. No father would do that. If he gave you a test, that means that you could overcome it. Yeah, maybe you're in the business and you know deep inside it's not the right business. And yeah, maybe you already ate the first sandwich of the cheeseburger and you know deep inside I'm not loving cheeseburgers. It's never too late. You're alive, do teshuvah. You know when it's too late? Once you're dead. Once you died. And that's what Rabbi Salant one of the greatest sages that's lived in the last few hundred years one time sees is in those days there wasn't electricity like we have today. The way you had electricity was with candles. And he saw that the whole town was sleeping except there was a little light. 8:00, 9:00 at night, everybody's going to sleep. Unless you have a little candle. And he saw that one of the stores has light. Who's working at this time? He went into the store and he saw, "Wait a minute. This is the watchmaker. He's working at 9:00 at night." Knocks on the door, goes inside, and he sees him working on the little pieces of the watch. He says, "What are you doing? Go home." "Go home." The watchmaker says to him, "So long as the candle is on, there's still much work to be done." And this time he started crying. The watchmaker says, "Rebby, why are you crying?" He says, "You just taught me a lot of mussar. You taught me a lot of a a life lesson. So long as the candle is lit, so long as your neshama is alive, you're still here. There's much work to be done. There's much work to be done. You're alive, you can do teshuvah. Don't ever cancel any mitzvot. Don't ever say this mitzvah is too big for me. Overcome it. You can do it. Anything it is. You want to be talmid chacham, you can be talmid chacham. You want to learn Hebrew, you can learn Hebrew. You want to be learn the entire Chumash by heart, you can do it. Anything you want to do, you can do it. Don't ever say you can't do it. Hashem and say thank you Hashem for more Torah. 1 2 3 Thank you Hashem. 1 2 3 B H Kids